The Schmidt Lithograph Company
Subtitle: and related material
By: tape recorded interviews conducted 1967-1968 by Ruth Teiser for the Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, California, 1968-1969 :
Contributors: Teiser, Ruth.; Schmidt, Max, 1882-; Diedrichs, Herman, 1887-1967.; Schmidt, Bernhard H., 1884-; Wuthman, Ernest Francis, 1918-; Norris, Stewart, 1912-; Schmidt, Lorenz, 1913-; Bancroft Library. Regional Oral History Office.
Published: 1967
Subjects: Schmidt, Max, 1850-1936; Schmidt Lithograph Company; Lithography -- California; California -- Imprints
Description: Interviews with (in v. 1); and with Ernest F. Wuthmann, Stewart Norris and Lorenz Schmidt (in v. 2). V. 1 covers the early history of the company, with extensive comment devoted to the identification of pictures of the company plants and offices in photograph albums deposited in The Bancroft Library; V. 2 covers the more recent history of the company - its growth and transition to a national corporation and its merger with the Stecher-traung Lithograph Corporation. Several anecdotes about Max Schmidt, founder of the firm. Photographs inserted.